#ladies. sugar daddy and older 'mature' man fantasies are fine whatever. but lets not kid ourselves. theyre not *empowerment* fantasies.

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god i need the algorithm to stop recommending lore olympus to me.

reframing a kidnapping of a woman as romance, and painting her mother as an overbearing shrew rather than rightfully worried and protective, and portraying the kidnapper as sympathetic ... what about my overtly feminist ass makes anyone or any algorithm think i'd enjoy ANY hades/persephone romance retellings.

at this point the only hades and persephone retelling i'm interested in is a retelling that focuses on demeter's love for her daughter. one where persephone's abduction and transition from kore, the maiden, to persephone, goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld, was one where she carries out a revenge fantasy against her abductor... She cannot fully escape the underworld, no; she is death, doomed by the narrative. Underground she will stay for half the year. But she will not subject herself to be trapped with him.

hades dies at dawn; hades dies in the spring light, by persephone's power, and a knife garnished with evergreen thistles. demeter holds him down, and persephone cuts the head. judith slaying holofernes; persephone slaying hades.

#i just cant stand it. i cant stand women simping over abusive and controlling men. begging yall... have some dignity #and i cannot stand women who write stories expecting their love of controlling and abusive men to be validated. #ladies... you dont have to like this........ the only things you have to lose are your chains!!!!! #also i dont like the girls outfits in lore olympus. #i cant be the only one who thinks theyre degrading. #why is dressing that way seen as sexy? and why is 'sexy' for a woman so humiliating and submissive? what would a sexy man wear by contrast? #lets stop treating ourselves as objects. we arent here to be ogled. you arent a sexy lamp. you can stop stop dressing as one. #also no amount of therapy speak in the world can cover up the fact that this is a relationship with untenable power differences #you can talk about boundaries all you like. hes 2000 years old ...and youre 19. #and the fact that all the older folk around her have their worries dismissed by the narrative........... side eye #ladies. sugar daddy and older 'mature' man fantasies are fine whatever. but lets not kid ourselves. theyre not *empowerment* fantasies. #you still dont have agency no matter how much money your boyfriend makes. not as long as it's *his* money. #you still dont have power no matter how powerful your boyfriend is. it's still *his* power. #its not empowerment if YOU arent the one that receives power. i dont care if you FEEL empowered. ARE you? in a material and objective way? #are you truly receiving POWER? or are you receiving gifts? if its in HIS power it isnt in YOURS. #and if you truly believe that there can ever be a relationship where he loves you enough that you have 'power' over him... #you fundamentally misunderstand the risks in dynamics like that. how abusive men can change in an instant. #women throughout history weep for you. please understand that you are not so different from them. #you are not inherently any smarter or better than abused women of the past. they thought they made the best choices they could too. #dont ever put yourself in a relationship with a man where he holds all the power. retain your power. #and when the older women in your life tells you something is a bad idea... run. run as fast as you can. they are trying to protect you. #ill regret posting feminist rants eventually but god i need an outlet